The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-17
Crime and Casualty.

ST.. LOUIS, March 1O.-A special to
the Post-Dispatch from Independence
| says: John Harrison and William
Majors were killed on the Missouri
Pacific railroad track at this place to-
day. They were building fence along
the track and stepped out of the way
of freight train on to the other track
and in front of an accommodation
train which ran over and killed them,
both bodies being horribly mangled.
THE RHEIN AFLoAT AGAIN.
NORFOLK, March l0.-The North
German Lloyd's steamer Rhein, which
grounded on Hog Island while on a
voyage from Bremen for Baltimore, got
on this morning and Is expected to ar
rive in Baltimore this afternoon.
RESPITE GRANTED.
ST. LOUIS, March 10.-GOvernor Mar
maduke to-day granted respite for
thirty days, to Dan Jewell, who is I'M
der sentence to be hanged here to-mor-
row. The convicted man is suffering
from a severe attack of pneumonia and
the sheriff objected to executing the
man in his condition. 1t is not thought
Jewell will live until the final date
fixed for his execution.
JOINED THE CANADIAN EXODUS.
New YORK, March 10.-The failure
of the old and well known house of
Levenson q Co., wholesale clothiers,
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| caused by dishonest bookkeeper.
] The boOkkeeper, Edward NJ. Newman,
pursued clever system of Justification
| for many years. The amount of New
mans stealings is believed to sum up
| over S50, 900. He is thought to be in
Canada by this time.
HORRIBLE CRIME.
ST. LOUIS. March 10.-A special from
Santa Fe, N. M, says: The particu-
lars of horrible crime committed on
Rock creek, in the northern part of this
county, reached this city to-day. Last
Friday morning Joseph Leckey's cabin
was burned down. A search of the
premises showed that Leckey's part
I neT had been shot in the , back and and
been burned to death in the
cabin. The charred remains of
| another body was also found in the
cabin. 1t is supposed that two con-
| testantS of Leckey'S claim went to the
cabin and became involved in quarrel
with the occupants, during which one
of them and 1eckey were killed. Tes-
sier then fed and is supposed to have
been shot while escaping. The other
contestant. is supposed to have then
burned down the cabin and escaped.
THE ANARCHISTS.
CHICAGO, March 10.-A Daily News
Ottawa, Ill. special states that the
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hear the arguments on the motion for
a new trial for the Haymarket anar-
chists next Thursday. The motion will
be argued orally, two hours being al
lowed to each of the six attorneys.
FIVE YEARS IN THE PEN.
| NEW YORK, March 10.-Louis
Beeral, who attempted to kill Surveyor
of Port H. S. Beattie, in the custom
house last October, was sentenced to-
day by Judge Benedict in the United
States circuit court to five years con-
finement in the states prison.
NEEBE GIVEN AN AIRING.
| CHICAGO, March 9.-FOr the first
time in a half year, since he was pro-
nounced guilty in Judge Gary'S court,
Oscar Neebe, the Anarchist, left the
jail. at the request of himself and his
friends Neebe was this afternoon taken
from the county jail to the home of his
brother, on Sedgewick Street, that he
might look once more on the features
of his wife, who died day before yester-
day Neebe's visit was paid very quietly.
At p. m, Deputy Sheriff Spears ap-
peared in the jail armed with a capias,
, on which he could hold the prisoner in
case possession was disputed and there
was any trouble. Twenty-Five minutes
later a carriage drove up to the
jail and Neebe's brother ahghted
from it and went into the Jail. Neebe
| WAS IncH IakcD HUH us Ccll ny JdllOA
FoltZ. He looked stouter than ever
| but very pale. His clothing was
t shabby, his overcoat seedy and his once
} jaunty SLOUGH hat covered with dust.
: He was smoking a cigar. Spears and
; his brother stepped into a carriage in
the alley and were rapidly driven off.
| He will be allowed to attend the funeral
tomorrow.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
| CINCINNATI, March "a special
from Louisa, KY, says: News has
been received from a lonely farming
community on Cats Fork in Lawrence
: County, of a horrible tragedy. Sam
: uel Smith aged 10, who had some diff
iculty with neighbOr, stephen Ham
revolver and went TO Hammond's, fol-
lowing him into the house. Hammond
7 then reached for his rife, but
Smith fired and killed him.
Hammond's wife and children, boy
and girl, attacked the murderer. but
he soon fatally wounded Mrs. Ham
mond, and as the children attempted
: balls. Thinking that he had killed the
5 entire family, he fed to the mountains
and has not yet been caught. Mrs
l Hammond will die and the children
may not recover.
MRS. PARSONS LOCKED UP.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9.-Lucy E
4 Parsons, the lecturing anarchist, wa:
5 refused a hall by a local military
company, where she proposed to speal
tonight. She called on the mayor t,
protest against such action and became
so abusive and demonstrative that sh,
:, was locked UP.
sUICIDED.
KANSAS CITY, March GA Times
Edna, Mo-, special says: County Clerl
Ennis, of this, Knox, County, commit
9 ted suicide to-day. He had no deput,
= and the county is consequently withou
q q clerk.
h woULD-RE DEsPERADo SHOT.
n SEDAN, Kan, March 10.-Last nigh
d at Cauly, twenty miles southeast O
a here, Jim Vaughn was playing the des
q perado, one of his exploits being an at
( tempt to make George Milford swim
pond near the town at q revolver
mouth. Milford drew a knife and toll
Vaughn that he would take his chance
p with his knife against the revolver, bu
he would not swim the pond. Waugh
u leveled his revolver as If to shoot, whe
q several parties interfered and succeed
III ed in arTesting him. There being n
g calaboose in town, he was placed i
W charge of Milford, Charlie Garland an
y VIII Cox: He attempted to escape an
.. the guards, who were armed with WiI
TT chester rifles, shot him down.
~ WILL NOT BE PROSECUTED.
Id NEW YORK, March I0.-Frank {
g Budd, broker who was brought baG
OF from Canada last night, charged wit
w defrauding ii. H. Mallory, publisher
TX the Churchman, of q large sum
of money, trumOred to be $50. 0O0l is CO
at fined at police headquarters. Poll
iss Inspector Byrpes allowed the sto
pA 60 got Qut to-day. Bud